Oliver Cromwell's riding accident in Hyde Park, London, England, November 1654
Illustration by Thomas Henry Nicholson (????-1870) from Cassell's illustrated history of England published circa 1896. The event which took place in November 1654, when Cromwell took the reins of a pack of horses, and was dragged behind outlined the vulnerability of the protectorate invested as it was in one man.
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